St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-17
A DEATH DEALING WIND.
Grand Forks, OAK, Visited by Terrific
Hurricane Which Does Immense
Damage.
Houses and Business Blocks Torn From
Their Foundations and Smashed
Into Fragments.
Three People, and Possibly More,
Killed and a Large Number
Badly Injured.
& Train Blown From the Track---Two
Minnesota Appointments---North-
western Notes.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
GRAND FORKS. Oak, June 16.-At 3
o'clock this afternoon hurricane OF un-
eXampled fury came on the city from
the west, accompanied with hail and
darkness, leaving III its wake wrecked
homes and business houses, and tearing
down the upper stories of the magnlfl-
cent university of North Dakota. Worst
of all. it is feared that many lives are
lost and numerous persons injured. 1t
was not cyclone, but straight wind.
The roar drowned that of the thunder,
and bent the young trees to the ground.
while on the river shores it uprooted
many large ones. For half an hour it
ragged with terrible ferocity, the air be-
ing filled with flying boards, tin roofs
and cornices, topping chimneys and
portions of dwellings. No man dared
venture out to escape from the tremb-
ling buildings or see how his neighbor
Jared. The storm continued nearly an
hour. All the streets presented
A DoLEFUL APPEARANCE,
and were filled with wreckage. The
city hall, the Griggs house, Devoy's mid
die temple, FurreS' art gallery, Finke u
Gocky's block. and the Herald printing
house were either diSmantled or had one
side blown out in the street. Many
residences are partially torn aSunder.
The base ball grand stand was rolled
over into the street. GrOsvenOr 81 Coles
machine buildings are all torn down.
Hunt, Holt & Gamers hall was dam
aged and the valuable plate glass fronts
demolished at Franklin's palace and
other buildings. Most people who had
cellars took refuge there. The Cadet
rink was totally demolished and the
railroad restaurant of Climer's also, the
inmates escaping miraculouSly. The
train from the North was blown from
the track five miles out, and many hurt.
Drs. Duggat and Herman went to the
scene. The Starbird residence
WAS BLOWN DOWN.
Mrs. Toilette, Mrs. Davis, her mother,
and Cora Star bird, aged twelve, were
killed. Mrs. Starbird escaped unin-
jured. Mayor Holmes and Ar. McClel-
Ian saw the house fall, and in the midst
of the storm commenced work with
axes to cut their way to where the dying
and dead lay mangled. The house of
Mr.. Tatton was also demolished. Mrs.
Tatton being seriously hurt and their
little boy and girl injured. There is not
tin roof in town uninjured. Later
from the university shows that the Gu
pola was torn off the west end and de-
moliShed The museum was DESTROYED
and the roof also. The wife and four
children of Jake Andrews were badly
hurt, and two are not expected to live
The machine-ShopS of the st. Paul, Min
neapoliS & Manitoba were destroyed,
and eight or nine persons injured, one
fatally Mayor Holmes has issued orders
to Marshal HenneSsy to look up all suf-
ferers, and see that they are cared for.
The train from the North is just in.
One man is missing, but none are seri-
ously hurt. The storm did not extend
west very far, but spent its fury in the
city and to the north. Mrs. Campbell,
Mrs. L. d. Bissell and daughter were
BADLY HURT,
Mrs. Campbell fatally. Mr. Bissell was
at Minneapolis. Mrs. Mcintosh. a
neighbor, was seriously hurt. All the
wounded and homeless were taken to
the Northwestern hotel, where refuge
was offered free by Aid. Bennett
The train from the north had the cars
blown over twice. Among the wounded
Scandinavian house, badly hurt on the
head and breast; Capt. Kennedy, of
Minto, head terribly bruised, now at the
Richardson house undergoing opera
ton; George Bulge, slight cut in the
head: James Twombly, of Minto. finger
broken. In East Grand Forks the Nc
Catfery house and other buildings were
destroyed. In the former Elic Gunner
son. of New York Mills, Mimi, was
killed. His head was crushed. Miss
Mcconnell had an arm broken. An
other lady's leg was broken. Mrs. Fol
lette, who was killed, was the wife
of Charles Toilette, engineer of
the steamer Pluck, of Moorhead.
Walkers saw and planning mills were
damaged considerably. The smoke
stack was blown in the river. Trees
are strewn in abundance all along the
river. 1t is reported that the storm was
the north, where buildings were blown
away and many injured. The storm
did not go farther east than Fisher,
which escaped with the loss of a wind
mill. The Andrews family had their
house literally torn to pieces and they
were carried 100 feet with flying tim
bers. The mothers condition is crit
ical and the children are injured inter
nally. Ed Forney's house was over
turned, his wife injured and two chill
dren were carried $50 feet and not hurt.
y
across the railroad track and lay there
during the whole storm. John Bella
way, of Drayton, had his
SCALP BADLY CUT
and ribs broken. The cars which blew
off the track lay a few minutes and
rolled over again, which caused the in
juries. G. A. Myerstrom, the carpenter
of the St. Paul, Minneapolis IL Mani
toba shops, is dangerously hurt about
the head. His wife is at Fergus Falls.
A meeting was held in the Presbyta-
rian church this evening to aid the suf-
ferers, who lost all, even their clothing
being stripped from them by the storm.
Up to this hour three are dead, two
dying, five in critical state ana ten
others injured more or less seriously
The Exposition building, costing 5000,
is scattered over the prairie. The Cath
Olic church is nearly ruined. Halver
Loyland, a student at the university,
was struck by lightning and killed.
The university damage is $4,000. The
losses to buildings, residences and fur
niture is estimated at 100000 One of
the injured on the train lives at Rey-
nolds, this county.
Suicide and Burglary.